Home Quotes

A true lady or gentleman remains at home with a grouch same as if they had pneumonia.

To be happy at home, said Johnson, is the end of all human endeavour. As long as we are thinking only of natural values we must say that the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or […]

The warden led the prisoner down the hallway to his doom And I stood up to say goodbye like all the rest… And I heard him tell the warden just before they reached my cell. Let my guitar playin’ friend fill my request. Sing me back home a song I used to hear. Make my […]

A man’s home is no longer his castle; it is no longer a place away from urgent tasks because the telephone breaches the walls with imperious demands.

But when I get that lonely spell, I simply seek the best hotel, No matter in what town I be – St. Paul, Toledo, or K.C., In Washington, Schenectady, In Louisville or Albany. And at that inn it hits my dome That I again am right at home. For all the crowd would be so […]

Nor need we power or splendor, Wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender, These form the wealth of home.

The happiness of the domestic fireside is the first boon of Heaven; and it is well it is so, since it is that which is the lot of the mass of mankind.

One of the things I want to do before I die is conduct the Homeless Olympics. Events would include: the 10-meter Shopping Cart Relay, the Dumpster Dig, and the Hop, Skip and Trip.

And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate-bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers’ gardens.